Hack 12 – March 2021

Our birthday hack 🥳 🎂 🍾 🎁. What started as a lockdown-inspired event, we just kept showing up, and have been having fun every month (with a short break in December) for a full year now! Thank you so much to everyone who’s come along and made it the awesome time it was 🙌 (and we hope you get good internet soon Mike).

Things people did

• Murray did something musical in C (the programming language…), and we’re itching to get him to explain it in a podcast episode…

• Tom did some exploration with microfrontends, and was interviewed about it on a podcast episode.

• Jane said she was going to hack with Access, and look at building up some newsletter templates. She also had strong Pokemon costume game at lunchtime.

• Tom L (langford) was soldering stuff BEFORE the hack started, AND told us about his plant->microcontroller->mqtt->etc AND helped out with DNS issues.

• Becky updated a sentiment analysis tutorial to actually work, and told us a bit about it on a podcast episode.

• Ryan and Adam cosplayed as Mad Men, by which they meant the Madison Men, and crafted some sizzling copy editing for the remotehack landing page.

• Pete parsed some Minecraft saved game data structures to show subsets of entire worlds in ThreeJS.

• Oli, Ben, Max, Dan, and Ruth formed a supergroup to craft different games to play with pose detection using tensorflowJS in the browser, which are available here.

• Piers wrote code to calculate the area of timber frames. He also was scheming to do some microcontroller stuff too.

• Panda took pictures of his seedling plants via VSCode on a Raspberry Pi.

• Dan wrote a script that uses EXIF tags to order files and managed to resist peer pressure to build something overblown and monstrous…but only barely.

• Mike was around for a bit, writing a blog post (I’m guessing it’s lamenting terrible internet connections and how long they take to fix).

Podcasts

• Episode #41, where we chat about what everyone’s hacking on to bring Adam up to speed.

• Episode #42, where Adam and Ryan chat about 1Password and Adam’s journey to secure all the things.

• Episode #43, where Adam chats with first-timer Tom, and we get a brief primer on dynamic micro front-end architectures and why creating one from scratch is a fun task.

• Episode #44, where Ben and Adam announce the Remote Hack Unconference.

• Episode #45 where Ben asks Adam about his side projects, and chat about Adam’s big ideas with Tensorflow and languange-learning games.

• Episode #46, where Adam and Ben discuss Max as a third party library.

• Episode #47, where Becky and Adam chat about modernising old Python sentiment analysis tutorials.

• Episode #48, where Ruth rebrands us and chats about making sound with your body on video.